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...arms policy, the United States must uphold its determination to avert a ruinous armaments race in the area. The U.S. should certainly refrain from attempting to outdo the Soviets in winning Arab friendship, even if arms shipments are the only way to Arab hearts. Whatever Mr. Dulles' cherished plans for a Middle Eastern defense arrangement directed against the Soviet Union, he should remember that in Arab eyes, enemy number one is not Russia, but Israel...
Every water expert knows that there is no quick and simple way to avert the threat of shortages. One proposed remedy is the regional water commission of nonpolitical experts to tackle the problem for an entire valley or watershed; such commissions are in operation in Boston, Los Angeles, suburban Washington. To plug two big leaks, the Government is pressing farmers to replace open irrigation ditches with more efficient concrete pipe, industry to conserve water by re-using supplies...
...letter accompanying the petition sought a meeting with University officials to avert a public fight over the housing project and work out a solution acceptable to both sides. Opponents of the plan last night saw little chance of further University action on the dispute until the fall. They said, however, that they would carry their fight as far as the Cambridge City Planning Board, if necessary...
...wreck the delicate mechanism of the whole price-support program. Next month wheat farmers will vote on whether to accept acreage restrictions again this year, and many experts think they will vote against them. If so, it will be up to Ezra Benson to figure out a way to avert a sudden market collapse...
...cautioned him to go slowly. You are too weak to fight now, they counseled. Invite negotiations; play for time. The advice was accepted. While soldiers and tanks moved through the tense streets of Saigon, the weanling government of the weanling state of South Viet Nam dickered and maneuvered to avert civil war and whittle down the warlords of the sects...